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Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.33 | At hotel check-in – Checking into a hotel in Portuguese

Join teacher Rafael and learner Ava in the latest episode of Coffee Break Portuguese to review useful words and phrases for checking into a hotel. We’ll hear a conversation recorded on location in Portugal between Ava and the hotel receptionist, which will help you expand your vocabulary on this topic and practise your listening skills.

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.32 | Loch Lomond

In this lesson of Coffee Break Gaelic, we continue our adventures in Scotland and hear about Iona’s visit to Loch Lomond.

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.31 | Glasgow

We are back after a short break and over the course of the next ten lessons we will be taking our Gaelic to the next level and really putting what we have learned into practice. We will follow Iona and her cousins Cailean and Sìne as they take a virtual island hopping trip. In Lesson

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 31 | At the airport – Planning a trip to Portugal

Welcome to a new episode… on location in Portugal! It’s time to put everything we’ve learned in our course so far into practice in real-life situations. Over the next 10 episodes, we’re going to be following Ava’s trip to Portugal. Back in the studio, Rafael and her will listen to the conversations recorded while she

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.30 | End-of-unit review – The basics in Portuguese from Lessons 1–29

We’ve reached lesson 30 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this episode we’re reviewing everything we’ve learned in our beginner’s course so far. We’ll be doing this by listening to and studying two short dialogues, which contain words and phrases on many of the topics we’ve covered. After this episode, we will be taking a break

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.29 | Making a phone call – How to answer the phone in Portuguese

In lesson 29 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’re learning how to make a phone call in Portuguese. Join Rafael and Ava to find out what to say when you answer the phone in Portuguese, learn other useful phrases you’ll need for a telephone conversation, and hear everything in context in a practice dialogue.

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.27 | Telling the time – How to tell the time in Portuguese

In lesson 27 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’re covering another useful, everyday topic – telling the time. We’ll learn how to ask someone for the time, how to say what the time is in Portuguese, and how to say at what time events start and end. Vamos lá!

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.25 | Descriptions and appearances – How to describe people in Portuguese

We’ve reached lesson 25 of our course and today’s topic is describing people in Portuguese. We’ll be learning useful words and phrases to describe someone’s appearance and say what they are like. This means that we’ll also be reviewing the basics of adjective agreement in Portuguese. Finally, we’ll be joined by Catarina, who has a

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.23 | At the pharmacy – Health and medicine vocabulary

Welcome to lesson 23 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we’re covering the transactional language that you’ll need on a trip to the pharmacy in a Portuguese-speaking location. We’ll be learning how to ask for medicine and ask how to take it, as well as other useful words and phrases on the topic of